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Understnd Pres Drg

Dorothy L. Smith. Pocket Books, $4.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-61461-4

Smith, a pharmacist, founder of the Consumer Health Information Corp. and author of Family Guide to Prescription Drugs, here lists more than 800 prescription drugs and includes information on their uses, side effects, necessary special precautions and warnings about possible interactions with other drugs. She also gives some 200 tips on the correct administration of drugs, noting, for example, that taking certain prescription drugs while flying is dangerous. Like other medicine guides, this one is filled with information the consumer does not always get from doctors and pharmacists; and fortunately, unlike many other guides, this conveys the facts without stern admonishments. (April)